Vote for Marie

Published: Monday, February 10, 2014 at 08:00 AM.

Local Panama City government makes me ill. No, don’t allow a vacant building to be refurbished and occupied by low-income families. Keep downtown free of “these types of people” so the rich can hold their parties and go out to dinner. Well, where are these low-income families supposed to go?

I applaud Royal American for trying to solve the problem of the lower income and the homeless. Most apartment complexes do background checks before leasing an apartment. Did the “haves” ever think that the “have nots” of the refurbished Marie Hotel would frequent area businesses just as they do? Stop trying to push lower-income families to areas where they will not be seen and be “out of sight, out of mind”!

ANDREA CARMAN Panama City

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Local Panama City government makes me ill. No, don’t allow a vacant building to be refurbished and occupied by low-income families. Keep downtown free of “these types of people” so the rich can hold their parties and go out to dinner. Well, where are these low-income families supposed to go?

I applaud Royal American for trying to solve the problem of the lower income and the homeless. Most apartment complexes do background checks before leasing an apartment. Did the “haves” ever think that the “have nots” of the refurbished Marie Hotel would frequent area businesses just as they do? Stop trying to push lower-income families to areas where they will not be seen and be “out of sight, out of mind”!